BC’s (leaving quite a) legacy kids have won four straight titles after turning back a gallant Northeastern team, 6-3, in Monday night’s title game at TD Garden. Only Boston University – three in a row from 1970-73 and six straight from 1995-2000 – had accomplished that.

“Awesome for us,” said senior winger Steven Whitney, who potted his team-leading 18th goal of the season.

BC’s senior class has, for all intents and purposes, lost one big game in their entire career – a first-round NCAA knockout in 2011. They are 8-0 in Beanpot games (outscoring their foes 40-18) and will soon take aim at their fourth straight Hockey East Tournament crown and a third NCAA championship.

Exhibit B – The Eagles just shrugged when Northeastern (8-14-3) struck twice early in the third period to shave a 4-1 deficit to 4-3. BC thought it had stuck a fork in the Huskies when Whitney scored with 0.4 seconds left in the second.

No matter.

“No one hit the panic button,” Mullane noted. “Everyone stayed composed. We played some real good hockey after those two (Northeastern) goals.”

Senior goaltender Parker Milner came up huge with a pair of saves and a saving poke check – all on one-on-one breakaways. The first denied Northeastern freshman Kevin Roy (5 goals in two games to snag Beanpot MVP honors) and preserved a 2-1 lead in the second period.

Milner, who won the Eberly Award for the highest save percentage among Beanpot goaltenders (.907), no doubt will come in handy as the Eagles take aim at some bigger prizes looming on the horizon. “You can’t win trophies without a standout goaltender,” coach Jerry York observed.

NORTHEASTERN

The stars seemed aligned for the Huskies as Monday was 33 years to the day that Wayne Turner beat BC in overtime to deliver Northeastern’s first Beanpot crown, in 1980.

Instead, the Huskies had to settle for an inspired comeback attempt that they hope bodes well for the stretch run.

“The story for our team is how we battled in that third period when that puck dropped,” said coach Jim Madigan of Milton. “They just went all out.”

Northeastern is 0-7 in Beanpot finals since their last crown in 1988, but of greater importance now is their last-place standing in Hockey East.

Page 2 of 3 - “Hey, we’ve got a lot of hockey left,” Madigan said. “We can still get back to this building (for the Hockey East Tournament semifinals) if we play like we did in the third period.”

The Huskies definitely have a star in Roy, whose goal 11 seconds into the third period served as a major wake-up call. He’s the first Beanpot MVP from a losing team since BU goaltender Sean Fields in 2004. He’s also Northeastern’s first MVP since 1988 (Bruce Racine).

Roy had a hat trick in the first-round upset of BU and scored twice in the final. giving him 17 goals on the season.

“He creates his shot as well as anyone,” Madigan said. “When he’s got the puck on his stick, good things happen.”

HARVARD

Coach Ted Donato (Scituate) and the Crimson have a modest Beanpot streak going – three straight third-place finishes. This one feels pretty good since Harvard is just 2-13-2 since mid-November. Ironically, both of the wins have come against BU – the latest a 7-4 victory in Monday’s consolation game.

“I told Ted he should play us all the time,” BU coach Jack Parker remarked wryly. “They manhandled us. There was a lot of compete in Harvard tonight.”

The Crimson (6-15-2), who have endured injuries and player departures in the wake of the school’s cheating scandal, won without leading scorer Jimmy Vesey and won despite having to play Sunday – a 1-1 storm-postponed tie with Dartmouth.

Luke Greiner had a hat trick, and freshman goaltender Peter Traber earned his first career win, making 43 saves (36 of them over the final two periods).

“It’s impressive to watch their resiliency,” Donato said of his troops, who host Colgate and Cornell this weekend.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Freshman winger Mike Moran (Marshfield) notched his first career goal to open the scoring in the consolation final, but that was about it for good news. BU (13-12-1) has finished fourth for the second time in three years and that hadn’t happened since 1961-63.

This Terriers club is in freefall – just 3-7-1 since returning from winter break – and can kiss an NCAA at-large bid goodbye. Home-ice advantage in the Hockey East quarterfinals is in jeopardy, too. BU (10-7-1, 21 points) is tied for fourth place with Providence, although the Terriers do have a game in hand on the Friars.

“It’s almost like we threw a switch in the second semester,” lamented Parker, who called his team’s recent effort “nowhere near” good enough.

BU hits the road this weekend for a pair of games at ninth-place Maine (8-15-5, 4-10-5). The Black Bears are 3-1-1 in their last five – an upturn that began with a road sweep of BC on Jan. 25-26.